Blair Campbell wrote:

In this case, running edit.exe simply hangs. The drive accesses for a
moment, the cursor sits blinking, and nothing happens until I push the
reset button.

Try this version of edit:
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/edit07d.zip
This version works (same as latest ODIN), but is VERY slow. Of course, this is a very slow machine though. Changing the options to disable all window decorations resulted in a significant improvement in editor performance, though. I suspect the clock in the status bar is the culprit. However, when I select "save options" the saved options only take effect if I change to c:\fdos before executing "edit". Perhaps I am doing something wrong?

I noticed that this program has a lot of nice features that could possibly be stripped out for improved performance for perhaps a specific version for low end systems, perhaps to be named "minied" or something?

Some thoughts of a "mini" version:

*) remove multiple file editing support
*) remove ascii table and calendar
*) remove undo/redo function or remove other advanced editing features
*) remove search

Perhaps I'll hack on the source, but I doubt it. I've got a lot of projects going on :)

- Nick


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